Submitted 14 hours ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz@sopuli.xyz to archaeology@mander.xyz
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260808235013.htm
[off topic?]
BRZRKR by Keanu Reeves and Matt Kindt. Immortal warrior fighting evil in the modern world.
At one point he’s talking to a scientist and says that it’s hard for him to remember everything that’s happened over thousands and thousands of years, but he remembers learning calculus a dozen times.
…please expatiate. Is this a graphic novel? XD
Silly me!
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artifex@piefed.zip 14 hours ago
I don’t like this headline. A human from 60,000 years ago would be anatomically identical to a modern human, brain included, so of course they mind would be able to produce sophisticated ideas. A better headline would have been about there are few examples of abstract mathematics from that long ago.
cmbabul@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
The Dawn of Everything makes this point fabulously and with loads of historical examples. The urge to look at the peoples of the past as primitive and lesser is a major fault in our understanding of ourselves and human societies
Eq0@literature.cafe 13 hours ago
I’ve been reading it and I recommend it m mainly for this specific reason! Just because they were born long ago doesn’t make them stupid. And, thinking about it, maybe not having a massively time consuming and mind numbing job actually helped them develop their minds and thoughts.
artifex@piefed.zip 13 hours ago
One of my favorite books. Though I have to read it with 10 Wikipedia tabs opened.
I look at humanity today and feel we’re quite primitive, worse than they were ages ago when they didn’t really have a choice.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Even in short timespans, I was downvoted harshly recently for disagreeing with somebody who said that the tech we use today was “unrealistic science fiction 50 years ago”.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
Yeah I agree, I don’t like changing headlines but this one is pure science gore.
I like the article despite that however.
Sacred geometry is millennia old.